Xylophone Extractor and Remover

How to extract the xylophone from a song

1. Add your song. MP3, WAV, M4A or FLAC, up to 10 minutes long. Sign in with Google when asked.
2. Press Extract the xylophone. Cost is 1 credit for every minute of the song, shown on the button first. Your 5 starting credits cover a song of up to 5 minutes. Expect 1 to 3 minutes of waiting, longer if the queue is busy.
3. Check and save. Open Xylophone and Without the xylophone one at a time, watch the small waveform beside each reel, then download the ones you want as MP3 files at 320 kbps.

A bright, dry, wooden sound

The xylophone has wooden bars with no long ring, so each note is short and crisp, like a quick tap. It is used for fun, light moments: a cartoon chase, a playful hook in a pop song, a march, a children's tune. In orchestral works it adds a skeletal, rattling color, and in some pieces a rapid run.

People who want it alone are percussion students learning a run, arrangers who need to see how often it appears in a score, and producers who want a bouncy, wooden loop. Without the xylophone is for a calmer cut of the same song.

Xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel

These three look alike, and they get confused the most. Marimba is lower, with a warm, round sound; see the Marimba Extractor. Glockenspiel has metal bars and a high, bell-like ring; see the Glockenspiel Extractor. Vibraphone has metal bars with sustain, on the Vibraphone Extractor. If the sound is a tiny bell, try the Bells Extractor or the Celesta Extractor.

Songs that work well

A xylophone is short and bright, which makes it stand out against drums and bass. It is harder to pick out when strong hi-hats, shakers or high synth plucks play at the same time.